Overview
- The SAT.1 presenter visited 44-year-old “Miri” at Cologne’s JVA Ossendorf for her podcast M wie Marlene – Wie gelingt das Leben.
- Miri is serving a life sentence imposed in 2019 and has been incarcerated for nearly seven years.
- She recounts years of sexual abuse before moving to Germany, including assault by an uncle, a pregnancy at 13, and a suicide attempt.
- In Germany she says an older man coerced her into prostitution, inflicted beatings and knife injuries, and she killed him in 2008, stating, “I am definitely the perpetrator.”
- Lufen grows audibly emotional during the conversation and argues Germany must expand women’s shelters and other help for people in similar situations.